I was up there about ten years or so ago, hiking along that trail above the lake. It is a TRIP how devastated it is, with the trees knocked down like matchsticks and piled at the end of the lake. They said some guy named Truman lived on the shore of the lake and refused to evacuate when they warned him the mountain was gonna go, and that he and his cabin ended up getting buried by ten feet thick burning ash.

These first two were shot right here in town, just a couple weeks ago, and hopefully give an idea of why I like it here. Sometimes I wonder what the rest of the country thinks of where I live, if all they know is blue football fields and potato farms. It can be a really fun place if you like to get outdoors.

Fall colors in the city; the trees have since lost their leaves. Novembers here can be kind of grim, but this was late October and the weather was still nice.

This is kind of neat; at Penny Springs, geothermal seeps along the south fork of the Salmon River (130 miles north of Boise) produce these smoking steaming cliffs. Sometimes people build pools by the base of the cliff for hot mineral baths.

Some of these pics are mind blowing,i wish i found this thread earlier.A hundred bux away from a new camera and ill have some better pics,iv just bought a house out here and there's some pretty cool scenery .

Dreadmeat, i was just about to watch that eclipse then a big cloud came at like the exact time it was sapossed to happen, till about one.It was like the cloud done it on purpose.

You live down the road from a mountain? How awesome is that! Can't wait to see the views from the top

EDIT; Is that Mt Ruapehu? Climbers and trampers have been told to avoid Mt Ruapehu's summit zone after scientists warned the mountain could erupt without warning

no that's mount egmont...yeah about 20 mins to the mountain and 10 mins to the sea,its pretty cool.Don't know if i'm ready to climb it just yet its a steep mountain.yeah ya can see ruapehu from some points down the coast,would kinda be cool if it erupt's,but i shouldn't really say that as it might fuck some people up.

Coprinopsis atramentaria, this will make you sick if consumed within a few days of alcohol, it contains Coprine which causes a condition similar to disulfiram, a unpleasant hypersensitivity to alcohol. Otherwise edible before it turns into an inky mass of spores.

Patellaria atrata, this was identified by others at AscoFrance. I was told it is quite common and grows on many surfaces, including rope. Its really tiny so easily overlooked, I only saw it cause I stopped to photograph something else.Spores

Great shots Byrain! The first shot is my new wallpaper.. looks like an alien world Here's a few I had saved:Sunrise on the prairies:First snow in the valley:Fire in the cabin:Northern Lights behind the cabin:BC valley:Violent storm in Saskatchewan.. I have a couple more of this storm if anyone's interested:

I enhanced this one a lot for effectIt was a crazy storm.. torrential rail, hail and tornadoes. Wind gusts up to 100km/hr!Driving home from the cabin, I got stuck in this monster storm. Going into this fucker with Finsterforst's "zum.." was quite an experience!I'm quite sure I narrowly missed driving into a tornado.. the wind went from 50km to 150km/hr in a split second, it was so bad I had to park next to the grain elevator in my previous picture

mindshadow it's egmont/taranaki, jeez man, do you not know your nz mountains?! we have loads of mountains up here in auckland too but none have snow

bloodycumshit [delightful username] that's some pretty sweet scenery down there, where did you move from?good for potatoes around there i believe.

good for potatoes, and mushrooms and......boom! ruepahu explodes,doesn't look that bad

oh, i lived in new plymouth for about 6 months before i moved out here(Okato), but i am from the mount.Yeah there's heaps of waterfalls and forest and shit out here,im keen to check out this place, its called the Goblin forest

Thanks for the kind words fellow peons! (dreadmeat & bcs)Goblin forest? damn, it looks otherworldly.. could spend days in there with a camera!I dug up a few more from my British Columbia trip a few years back:

what lake was the "Ancient Claw of Doom" taken at? The lake looks familiar, but it was AGES and ages and ages ago since I was up in British Columbia; it might not be the same place... All the pictures are awesome, too.

I haven't been out in a long enough time to have any really great pics, but the most prized of mine is this one where I get the sunlight shining on the grass in this perfect light. Doesn't come close to some of the other pictures here. Them storm clouds man...

Yeah, I'm glad I got to grow up around all that, I don't live there now but I like to visit as much as I can. I've always wanted to visit New Zealand too, the varying terrain intrigues me. Really enjoy all the pictures on here.